duea
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Example: The leaf can be used to wrap food for carrying, for example, wrapping up crabs.
Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kahimaregi
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Example: Overripe, can be put into seawater for up to 3 months to ferment, then drunk for intoxication
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kaperis apusan
kaviatameta
kiri
kirikapóu
konambre
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Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.
Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nakwa numun
namatamai
napuer
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Example: Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.
Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nashiapou
nasuaiou
natuan
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Example: The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of hte scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk" that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it. Another use is to tr
Scientific name: Dysoxylum amooroides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nawa
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Example: Fruits edible when ripe. The stem is used for timber and sawn timber. Flowers attract fruit bats. Hunters, knowing this, hunt the bats at night.
Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nawirok
neknapus
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Example: The leaves of this plant are warmed over a fire and put warm on the legs of a person who is cold or has a headache, such as from a fever that comes with the flu. See 3076 for additional comments on this technique.
Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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neparum
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Example: Before there were many root crops such as taro and cassava, people would use the roots of this plant as a food, after roasting it in the fire. The roots are said to be very large and edible.
Scientific name: Pueraria lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nevau
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Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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ning
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Example: When thatching a house, put the coconut leaves on the crossbars, and then push the stem of this plant into the coconut leaves and bend them over to hold the coconut leaves. Use the stems of this plant as a support for yam vines. Use the stem to make arrows.
Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nuapupu
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Example: When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.
Scientific name: Ipomoea pes-caprae, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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numeiau
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Example: The stem of this tree makes good firewood, it is a light wood so easier to carry. People use it to start a fire, by using 2 sticks of this plant with chopped stem fragments, if there are no matches
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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numun
pasuwa
penesu
penesu pitew
sadine sadine
tasiapen
terag
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Example: Medicine: This plant is used to relieve itchiness. Green leaves are rubbed on an area to reduce the sensation.
Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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turaimien
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Example: Peel stem and chop pieces of stem and pieces of stem of Nothocnide repanda (MB 5122), add fresh water, squeeze in hair, rub head in one direction, do this for one month then hair will turn blond color (for Toka dance) and will also help dreadlocks.
Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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turaimien
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Example: Peel stem and chop pieces of stem and pieces of stem of Pipturus argenteus (MB 5121), add fresh water, squeeze in hair, rub head in one direction, do this for one month then hair will turn blond color (for Toka dance) and will also help dreadlocks.
Scientific name: Nothocnide repanda, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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